We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.